The number of people confirmed killed in the Indonesian tsunami rises to 280 with more than 400 missing, and a trail of destruction in the archipelago's western islands. Video courtesy of Reuters.

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go ... we ... feel it's flat ... nearly every tilting your has been destroyed ... Indonesia's remote Mantell we Ireland's hounded by devastating tsunami that has left at least two hundred and eighty people dead ... the disaster mitigation agency says four thousand people have been displaced by the giant waves ... and a more than four hundred are still missing ... the villages are left with nothing ... they sort through rubble hoping to find their belongings ... this group of Australian surfers was that see when the tsunami struck ... and their boat collided with another ... back safely imports of cars on ... a crew member of the Upper boat the freedom three ... describes what happened ... we anchored fifty meters from the show ... but suddenly I sort of very high and wide ... as high as three to four weeks is that the other thirteen Alberta identical plan ... I ... the main ... the tsunami came in the week of a seven point five magnitude quake that struck about eighty km west of the islands ... it is only just starting to arrive at destroyed villages ... and officials say clean water is scarce and the risk of disease is growing ... Travis Sprecher ... Reuters ...